Friday, October 31, 2008

Ignorance destroys kings...

The Atlas Bone in the body



If you do not study history, you are destined to repeat it. If you do study history, when you repeat it, you know what the consequences will be, at least. Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is not a goal,it is a pit, a deep pit. If you don't climb out of that pit and learn your lessons well, your influence will be abated and snuffed out.



We do not have to be afraid of study, as Christians. We can be as knowledgeable as our minds will allow and we will never compete with God. We know He is in charge of knowledge and all knowledge bows in obeisance to Him and His glory. So just learn!




The Atlas statue

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Sloth destroys kings...

I cannot believe that you children did absolutely nothing that I asked you to do on your day off. Maybe you did some few things, but certainly not enough. You encourage yourselves not to complete the tasks. A large family can be a bed or a prod. You can challenge eachother or you can justify eachother. It is up to you to push one another to excellence or let one another stay simple(minded) and ineffective.
There are few things that shame your mother worse than that you do not try to do your best. Doing evil and doing a half job are brothers of eachother. Consistency and productivity are also brothers. Choose the latter!

Monday, October 27, 2008

It is not for kings, O Lemuel?

The precious way that the writer of Proverbs 31's mommy appealed to the positive encouragement toward the good and away from evil. Not "don't do that!", but that is not fit for a young man of your position and ambition. This clearly gets more attention and causes greater affection than the former statement. It takes years to get to the point of motivating young people with this type of ambition to the good, better and best; as opposed to motivating them with threats and antagonism...
Help, Dear Lord.
"I will tell you, my son", she seems to say, "what happens to the people who are given to much drink..." They forget themselves and do all manner of silly things and no one ever forgets what they did, but them. She challenges her son to a higher calling and higher expectations of himself. You have a mission and you have a purpose to think about. You are the answer to prayer and God's got a very special plan for your life... I would that the children would get a vision of themselves included in the puzzle of the future. They may not be kings or priests or noblemen, but God's men are called to live at a higher standard.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Or Your ways to that which destroys Kings...Anger destroys kings!

Anger is probably the most dangerous habit to form so early in life. Count your blessings to be practicing forbearance with many brothers and sisters and people stepping on your toes and elbowing you. This will knock you down much and you will have to learn to get up much.
Self-anger is far more stubborn. Do not get into the habit of name calling and degrading. Wars are started from just such feeble beginnings. It seems, from watching Goodbye Mr. Chipps that I see that the English had a vision of beating their swords to plowshears far earlier than I had seen. "The heart of England" is what the headmaster called their school. Those who learn the controls carry the day. When we neglect these disciplines in education as a nation we are deteriorating the body. The heart is sick. The heart is collapsed and the body is moving without one. Deathly silent, is the place where children have no place to bring their folly and have it corrected or directed.
Education has been seen in rebellious Americas as the place where the mind is filled up like a gas tank and the rich have the information to lord it over the poor and ignorant. I like the heart analogy, far better. Whatever we are as a nation and whatever we agree to be together, we become in the schools. We feed into the progress of the world or the deterioration of the world in school.

What do we do with our anger? Where do we place it and to what purpose is it to serve? We find that out in school. I see now that the SAT's were designed to melt the knowledge of people's histories out of them to try to create a utopian amalgamation with only the distinctions placed upon you by the school. God gave us our distinctions. Rather than root them out through selective means such as SAT's, we should find the effectiveness and usefulness of the child and train them to use their skills for the good of the whole.
One might say "Your anger makes me angry." Their burdens of history need to be rooted out, so that we have one nation. Is that so? One history is God's history and He is the God of truth. Not only the God of the dominant culture. God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Grace teaches you and grace molds you into a person who can affect your culture in spite of your inability to forget the sad state that the world is in because of sin. Anger does not accomplish God's will. Grow up a people who can engage in discussions on these points.


I love the Presidential debates, where we see the verbal interaction of great men and how they deal with things which would cause others to be rumbling in the street. It instructs the young men on what to do when this happens to them. Young men need to see men engaged in verbal discussion, even on what makes them angry.
This recent discussion made it clear that young black men can learn from Obama self control as they deal with their conflicts in their spheres.

Attacks come and the other men will taunt you and call you an opportunist for being in a position of leadership and having such that that affords and the temptation is to strike blows at their character for doing so. Self control says that is unimportant. Stick to the topic.
Do NOT Give YOUR STRENGTH to that which destroys kings.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Viewing the Greatness of God, where we can





does much to humble us. God's greatness in His creation is evident. Mountains tall or not so tall are magnificent. God's order of providence to redeem us and to maintain the world. There are none like Him, working all things out for His own glory and our good.
Sometimes all we need to do is look up to be humbled. If we are looking in the mirror too much or at the ground too much we miss the beauty and magnificence of what God has given us to remind us of His majesty.
"Look up, see God, help is on the way..."

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Whose Eyes Are You Great In!



When you were small in your own eyes, God states in scripture...When you were small in your own eyes...
God develops the eyes of your soul to yourself. Drinking wine, intoxicating drink, none of these is as intoxicating as pride to your soul. Do not drink unless you are in poverty or pain. More importantly, Don't be BIG in your own eyes!

Monday, October 20, 2008

Or your ways to the Pride and Pridefulness of our day!

I think that it is so significant that the first big challenge of our southern sojourn was the breaking of a bone. Ethan was way up on the top of the bed and fell off to break his arm. We are learning to navigate through the subtle invasive sin of pride that so easily besets us.



We don't even know that we are proud. We don't even know that we are covetous. We don't even know that we are following the way of the unrighteousness of our day. God has let us know that a kingdom is condemned when there are "many princes". Many little princes and princesses who think that they are God's precious gift to the world.
You are precious, dear children. I love you very much, dear ones; but most certainly know that the privilege of poverty and the privilege of suffering with little is to cause you to see yourself and in need and to be that kind of salt in the generation that God has caused you to be an influence in.
The world and this family unit does not revolve around you.
These are the things that "Destroy kings". If you are not given to those things, don't glory in that. Thank God that the privilege of sharing and the privilege of learning to humble yourself in poverty has gleaned that character in your soul. None will see the kingdom of God who cannot see the reality of themselves in the light of the word of God.
What destroyed King Saul? What destroyed Jereboam? What destroyed Nero? What destroyed Ceasar? What destroyed the Pharoahs? The same will destroy the name of Walker off of the face of the earth, if you don't learn from these things. To whom much is given, much is required and they who sin against light are judged more severely.
Beware of the covetous culture that we are rearing you in. Beware of the proud culture of the world around you. Beware of the deception of pride.
A broken arm is minor compared to a deceived soul. Let us stay low and on the ground in our own sight that we would not break the arms or the "neck" of our souls by the pride which blinds us to God and his salvation.
Help us Lord to glorify you with what we have and don't have.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

The Paint splatter from the artists on the floor


came up, thanks to the "Rug Doctor"! Hooray! I thought that I would have to live with that mess on their rug for the length. My artists made a mistake and I could've flipped and maybe I did. The Rug Doctor fixed my problem and gave me a better attitude about the decor.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Do Not Give yourself to:


Ice cream, butter, music, pleasure,
We have to be careful, sons and daughters to be balanced in our activities. God has given us all things richly to enjoy.
The more we engage in things to excess is the more that we tax our bodies and take away the liberties of the next generations. We are blessed with bodies from God. These bodies were made to glorify God and to procreate and each family is blessed with a certain number of sensories to use and to enjoy.
God said to Adam, "All the trees of the garden, you may freely eat..." All of the senses in our body we may utilize to God's glory... But none to excess. Help us Holy Spirit!

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Tonight, I take my bath to task.

Round 1: The floor:

I made the mistake of pouring half the bottle of amonia on the floor in my bathroom. I was so disgusted at the mess in there and I just wanted to sterilize the entire thing. Now, that I am asphyxiated everytime I walk past there I am giving myself the coffee break to blog about my dilemma.
I will work on the rest of it every other thing is out of there, but the floor was a haywire mess! I cannot see how it gets so messy under my own nose.
I have been more than a little bit remiss.
Well, back in there for round 2: The fumes!

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Work Hard and Work Smart!



Others will try to use your mental ability for their own purposes, children. John Henry is a picture of how the stereotype of laziness can inspire a person to kill himself.
Learn the lesson, be diligent but not foolish. The lesson of Mordecai in the book of Esther will show you how God can deliver a person from a froward slave master. God cares that you labor and that you put Him first. Don't try to compete with the computer, my children. Use the computer and these tools as tools. Use them to enhance your labor and teach others to do so as well.
God is omnipotent, God is Omnipresent and whenever we try to compete with progress, instead of jumping on board with it, we will be crushed by the steamroller of progress.
Learn all that you can and use every tool for the glory of God!

Monday, October 13, 2008

Only the Good?

How are you? "I'm good!" Am I good? Jesus said there is none good but God. Am I good? Even in Christ, I am not good, I am well in my soul. I am redeemed in my soul. But if I think that I am good I am beyond the reach of God for redemption because I have set up my own set of universes to rule which are my sphere and I am the god of them. If I am god or a god, then I need no redemption.


How are you, Jayne?

Friday, October 10, 2008

Half-baked?




Why are you in a dress shirt and shorts today, my son and daughter? Why aren't you studying today my son and daughter? Why won't you get a haircut, sonny, daughter? I love your choices in these matters, just give me the reasoning behind your choices. You look beautiful to me as I watch the conformation process through school. I would say that the white shirt represents that your top half is ready for the work-a-day world and your bottom half is still immature and frivolous. Don't worry, It will be a long time of your life that you will be in suits and ties. Walker boys and girls seem to like those items of vesture, not all men or women do.
I want to be a part of the thoughts that make you the man of God that you become. We are in the world, but not of the world, so that underneath the white tailored shirt is God's boy or girl now and God's man or woman in the future, whether I am here or not!

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

What? sons and daughters of my womb and vows?

My greatly esteemed Bishop Ceasar, the elder of my youth; used to encourage us to read the scriptures. Why? Our eyes probably said to him. He was in his eighties and I, a teenager would want to know how to stay in the scripture even to the old age, like that.
It was a tremendous wonder to me and still is, Bishop passed onto Glory in his nineties, nearly a centenarian and he always said the same thing. "God has a special blessing in each reading of the scriptures. He saves certain blessings for the 100th time that you read a passage."
I could not believe that at the time. I was only grasping my hand around the initial lessons of who is who and what is what in the scripture. Who is Adam?, Who is Noah? I didn't grow up with these names constantly inserted and represented to me. I heard them occasionally, but at 16 I started devouring those names ferociously.
Now, at 46, 30 years later, I see that it is true. The more I devour the heart of God expressed in scripture, the more hungry for God and the more small I become. I am still trying to find out what?


Monday, October 6, 2008

What, Son of my womb!


You guys have so much to say! Fellows, you are always telling me some new information and some new thing that you are investigating. "Guess what?"
You know that you have 2 eyes to see and 2 ears to hear and only one mouth. SHHHHH! LISTEN!
God has so much to say to you, through His creation and through the Bible. Read and Pray and Listen and Look and when you are talking you may have something to say.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

What, My Son

The birth of baby Aiden has reminded me of the brevity of life. It was just yesterday that we were embracing our little cherubs and rejoicing at the gift of life.




Proverbs 31 writer seems to remind us that we so often are answering the questions that they are asking that we don't tell them what they need to know. What? What? What else? You are always chatting about something that I want to hear about, because I love you and learning how you think. Now, when I am gone you will read and see how I think and what I think is important for you to know.
What else, my son?

Friday, October 3, 2008

Like Mother, Like Daughter III









Visiting the Nursing Home to see Aunt Iva on Easter 2004

Everybody is so grown now!